[thūang] (v) EN: object to ; protest against ; argue against ; put forward an objection ; raise an objection ; criticize ; remonstrate ; expostulateFR: s'opposer (à) ; protester (contre) ; être en désaccord (avec) ; rouspéter (fam.)
[よけん, yoken] (n) postulate; given conditions; data [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Postulate \Pos"tu*late\, a.
Postulated. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Postulate \Pos"tu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postulated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Postulating}.]
1. To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate
conclusions.
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2. To take without express consent; to assume.
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The Byzantine emperors appear to have . . .
postulated a sort of paramount supremacy over this
nation. --W. Tooke.
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3. To invite earnestly; to solicit. [Obs.] --Bp. Burnet.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Postulate \Pos"tu*late\, n. [L. postulatum a demand, request,
prop. p. p. of postulare to demand, prob. a dim. of poscere
to demand, prob. for porcscere; akin to G. forschen to
search, investigate, Skr. prach to ask, and L. precari to
pray: cf. F. postulat. See {Pray}.]
1. Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or
supposition assumed without proof, or one which is
considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be
demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
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2. (Geom.) The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in
distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a
self-evident theorem.
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The distinction between a postulate and an axiom
lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be
self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon
between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not
as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.
--Eng. Cyc.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
postulate
n 1: (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to
provide a basis for logical reasoning [syn: {postulate},
{posit}]
v 1: maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no
future" [syn: {contend}, {postulate}]
2: take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited
three basic laws of nature" [syn: {postulate}, {posit}]
3: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do
what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This
job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands
a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a
spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a
patient's consent" [syn: {necessitate}, {ask}, {postulate},
{need}, {require}, {take}, {involve}, {call for}, {demand}]
[ant: {eliminate}, {obviate}, {rid of}]
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